US 11,675,563 B2
User interfaces for content applications
Agnes Won, Oakland, CA (US); Erik Lindholm, San Francisco, CA (US); Drew R. Domm, Oakland, CA (US); and Adam Silver, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/584,715.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/856,012, filed on Jun. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0379715 A1, Dec. 3, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G10H 2220/011 (2013.01)] 53 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at an electronic device in communication with a display device and one or more input devices:
while playing a content item, displaying, via the display device, time-synced lyrics corresponding to the content item, wherein displaying the time-synced lyrics corresponding to the content item includes displaying a respective portion of the lyrics that corresponds to a currently playing portion of the content item with a first visual characteristic that has a first value, different than a value of the first visual characteristic with which other portions of the lyrics are displayed, and updating the display of the lyrics to continue to display a respective portion of the lyrics that corresponds to the currently-playing portion of the content item with the first visual characteristic that has the first value as the content item continues playing;
while playing the content item and displaying the time-synced lyrics corresponding to the content item, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to scroll through the lyrics;
in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to scroll through the lyrics:
scrolling through the lyrics from a first respective portion of the lyrics to a second respective portion of the lyrics and displaying a visual indication of a playback position within the content item corresponding to the second respective portion of the lyrics while continuing to play the content item without skipping to a respective portion of the content item that corresponds to the second respective portion of the lyrics, wherein the visual indication of the playback position within the content item corresponding to the second respective portion of the lyrics is displayed proximate to the second respective portion of the lyrics; and
while scrolling through the lyrics, displaying, via the display device, a scrubber bar that indicates a playback position within the content item that corresponds to the currently playing portion of the content item, wherein the visual indication of the playback position within the content item corresponding to the second respective portion of the lyrics is independent from the scrubber bar;
receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input selecting the second respective portion of the lyrics; and
in response to receiving the input selecting the second respective portion of the lyrics, skipping to the respective portion of the content item that corresponds to the second respective portion of the lyrics and continuing playing the content item from the respective portion of the content item.